Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist, recent winner of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, reads her work.

Assistant Professor of English Mary Szybist, recent winner of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, reads her work.

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The Aubrey R. Watzek Library and the Exploration and Discovery Program would like to bring your attention to a new opportunity designed to showcase the work of Lewis & Clark first-year students: the James J. Kopp First-year Research Awards.

Maggie Costello ’16 and Sofia Knutson ’16 spent the summer working with Professor of History Elliott Young to study the relationship between immigration and incarceration in the United States and Mexico. They reflect on this experience in the following Q&A.

Claire Hinkley ’15 has been working with Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sepideh Bajracharya to study food’s role in a system of traditional medicine. She reflects on this experience in the following Q&A.

The debate team of McKay Campbell ’14 and Emily Halter ’14 recently won the prestigious Great Salt Lake Invitational, held at the University of Utah. Campbell and Halter placed first out of a field of 98 teams from 34 schools across the nation, defeating a team from William Jewell College in the final debate to win the title.

William Stafford (1914–93) achieved international acclaim as the author of dozens of volumes of poetry, winner of a National Book Award, consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, and Oregon Poet Laureate. He also taught at Lewis & Clark for 30 years. And, thanks to the Stafford family, we hold his literary archives.

Mary Szybist, associate professor of English, has made the long list for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry with her latest collection, Incarnadine. She joins nine of the country’s preeminent writers of contemporary poetry, which include a National Book Award Finalist and two Pulitzer Prize finalists.

A Fall '08 exhibit at Watzek Library examines 500 years of bookbinding history, from the era of vellum through contemporary handmade books, revealing some of the lesser-known items in the rare book holdings of Lewis & Clark College Special Collections